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MOOCsinChina:AReviewofLiterature,2012–2016Lisa,XiaoqinLiDepartmentofCommunicationUniversityofMacauHKAECT-AECT2017SummerInternationalResearchSymposium15-17June,2017IntroductionThedevelopmentofMassiveOpenOnlineCourses(MOOCs)is"aninnovationwithgreatpotentialtowidenparticipationandpromotelifelonglearning",and"anopportunitytopromotehighereducationopportunitiesmoregenerally"(QAA,2014).
Beingaheatedtopic,MOOCbringsanexplosiveincreaseinquantityofpapersrelatedtothistopic.
However,comprehensiveandsystematicreviewsonMOOCstudiesarerareandnotup-to-date(seeLiyanagunawardenaetal.
,2013;Kennedy,2014).
Bythemeansofliteratureanalysis,thispaperattemptstodepictapictureofcurrentsituationofMOOCinChinaandpresentasystematicanalysisofthesituationandtrendofChineseMOOCstudies.
Background2012:Stanford,HarvardandMIT-Coursera,edXandUdacity2016:Coursera1,814coursesand1,312,000subscribers,edX1,053coursesand254,000subscribers,Udacity20coursesand5,000subscribersInChina,PekingUniversity,ChineseUniversityofHongKong,FudanUniversityetc.
affiliatedwithCoursera;TsinghuaUniversity,HongKongUniversityofScienceandTechnologyetc.
cooperatedwithedX.
TsinghuaUniversityevensetupthefirstChineseMOOCplatformnamedXuetangX,whichhas313coursesand208,000subscribers(2016).
Setting"MOOC"askeywordandsearchinginCNKI.
net,itcanbefoundthatrelatedstudiesemergedin2012(3articles).
Inthefollowingthreeyears,thenumberofpapersarerespectively125,826and1,786.
MethodsSamplingcriteria:CSSCIjournals;keywords"MOOC"+"Openeducation"+"Distanceeducation"Firstround:qualityacademicjournalsabouteducation,suchasDistanceEducationinChina,ModernEducationalTechnology,OpenEducationResearchandetc.
42papersyieldedinAug.
2016Secondroundofsearchwasextendedtotwodatabasesusingthesamekeyword–NationalSocialScienceDatabaseandWanfangDatabesideseducationjournals.
10recordsinqualityjournals,included5articlesincommunicationeducation52paperstoformthedatabaseResultsI-CharacteristicofstudiesSettings-categoriesMostofthepaperinclude"Introductory"-NOthiscategoryinanalysisOurresearchfocusedontheothercharacteristicsofstudy,suchastheperspectivesoftheusersand/orprovidersandtechnology"Casestudies"(n=14).
Ofusers,i.
e.
,"learningexperience",(n=14)Oftheprovidersside,i.
e.
,"coursebuilding"(n=9),andTechnology,theautomaticevaluationofonlinelearning(n=2)SomeofthearticleswereassignedtomorethanonecategoriesResultsI-CharacteristicofstudiesCasestudiesCoursera–toexploretheblendedlearningmodebasedonMOOCBOOCTsinghuaUniversity–thebehaviorofstudentsandteachersfromTsinghuaUniversity…ResultsI-CharacteristicofstudiesResearchanddatatype12:thequantitativemethod,28thequalitativeand4involvedwithbothofthem.
Nocertaintypeofresearchmethodappliedintherestof16papersResultsII-EducationalpracticesParticipantsLearners:High-educatedbutdiversifiedinbackground;Self-motivatedanddeepengagement;Otherreasonsofdropout:difficultiesinaccessoftheweb;cultureandlanguagegap;andetc.
Teachersandproviders:Thedevelopmentisrapid,buthistoryisshortandlimitedteacherscomparativetothethelarge-scaleenrollmentexpansioninrecentyearsProblemsembeddedinassessmentsystemoftheuniversitiesinChinaResultsII-EducationalpracticesInteractionandcommunication:Limitedandatlowlevel,withoutemotionalcommunicationLacksaneffectivemechanismtotestthelearningeffectsoftheparticipantsResultsII-EducationalpracticesCoursebuilding:TheanalysisrevealsthatasuccessfulMOOCplatformshouldincorporatethefollowingelements:acompletecoursestructure,high-caliberteachingproviders,timelyfeedbacks,matureguidingtheories,correctassessmentoflearningresults.
ThecorelearningmechanismsthatMOOCpossessesincludeeffectivenessofonlinelearning,finelearning,interactionandcooperationbetweenlearners,andcomplexsystemofself-organizationDiscussionsandConclusionThisstudywasconductedfouryearsafterMOOCsweptoverinChina.
Thevolumeofresearchislimited,restrictingourunderstandingofMOOC.
MostoftheresearchesfocusonthelearnerperspectiveandcasestudiesforlimitedempiricalevidencePossibleculturaltensionembeddedinMOOC,languagegapsandlimitedteachingresourcesWithMOOC,userscanstudyonlineandgetaccesstotopuniversitiesintheworldwheneverandwherevertheycan.
Thishasmadeitidealforopeneducationwithoutnationalboundariesandskincolor.